Emily Ratajkowski isn’t holding back about the Blue Origin space mission after several American cultural icons briefly took a trip to space.
In a TikTok video, the model called out what she sees as total hypocrisy in the stunt, which was backed by Amazon and SpaceX founder Jeff Bezos.
“That space mission this morning, that’s end time shit,” she said bluntly. “Like this is beyond parody, saying that you care about Mother Earth and it’s about Mother Earth and you’re growing up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s single-handedly destroying the planet.”
“Look at the state of the world and think about how many resources went into putting these women into space for what?” she added. “What was the marketing there and then to try to make it like I’m disgusted, literally I’m disgusted.”
Olivia Wilde chimed in too, adding her thoughts about the Blue Origin space journey. “Billions dollars bought some good memes I guess,” Wilde posted on Instagram Monday.
EmRata’s not completely off base here. Amazon’s carbon footprint is huge. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a non-profit that collects company-submitted environmental impact data, slapped Amazon with an F grade in 2022 after the company dragged its feet on disclosure until that year and then asked to keep the info private.
Fast forward to 2024, and Amazon’s transportation pollution jumped 18% despite starting a climate pledge initiative back in 2019. Rocket launches definitely harm the environment too, but scientists are still figuring out exactly how bad the damage is.
“We are changing the system faster than we can understand those changes,” Aaron Boley, an astronomer at the University of British Columbia and co-director of the Outer Space Institute, told The New York Times.
Ratajkowski isn’t alone in slamming the all-female space mission. Olivia Munn also called it “gluttonous.”
“There are so many other things that are so important in the world right now. What are you guys going to do up in space?” the actress questioned. When she found out the mission lasted just 11 minutes, she compared it to riding Magic Mountain at Disney.
The trip took Katy Perry, Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez, Gayle King, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen and Kerianne Flynn briefly into space. “It’s oddly quiet when you get up there,” King shared afterward. “It’s really quiet and peaceful, and you look down on the planet and think: That’s where we came from? To me it’s such a reminder about how we need to do better, be better.”
Maybe step one in doing better is cutting carbon emissions.
